Central South American category: 593 books
by Paul R. McAleer
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the utopian impulse. This book analyses these functions of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American...
Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions
Gender, Culture, and Nation Building
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled...
Guantánamo and American Empire
The Humanities Respond
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book explores the humanities as an insightful platform for understanding and responding to the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, other manifestations of “Guantánamo,” and the contested place of freedom in American Empire. It presents the work of scholars and writers based in Cuba’s...
Unraveling the Real
The Fantastic in Spanish-American Ficciones
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
In literary and cinematic fictions, the fantastic blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. Lacking a consensus on definition, critics often describe the fantastic as supernatural, or similar to, but quite different from fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism.
In Unraveling the Real...
Sites of Disquiet
The Non-Space in Spanish American Short Narratives and Their Cinematic Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Some of the most important writers of the twentieth century, including Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, and García Márquez, have explored ambiguous sites of a disquieting nature. Their characters face merging perspectives, deferral, darkness, or emptiness. Such a space is neither a site of projection (as...
Identity in Latin American and Latina Literature
The Struggle to Self-Define In a Global Era Where Space, Capitalism, and Power Rule
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This study demonstrates the ways that Latina authors contest how power and space exploit women while simultaneously subverting the Nation-State through reimagining a counter-space where new definitions of the self lie beyond Power’s reach. Moreover, this book delves into how both Power and Space...
Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature
Between Romanticism and Formalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between literature and...
by David William Foster
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
A taboo subject in many cultures, homosexuality has been traditionally repressed in Latin America, both as a way of life and as a subject for literature. Yet numerous writers have attempted to break the cultural silence surrounding homosexuality, using various strategies to overtly or covertly discuss...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In the decade from the early 1960s to the early 1970s, Latin American authors found themselves writing for a new audience in both Latin America and Spain and in an ideologically charged climate as the Cold War found another focus in the Cuban Revolution. The writers who emerged in this energized cultural...
The Noé Jitrik Reader
Selected Essays on Latin American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2005
The Argentine scholar Noé Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarship but also for his wit. This volume is the first to make available in English a selection of his most influential writings. These sparkling translations...
Ernesto
The Untold Story of Hemingway in Revolutionary Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
From the first North American scholar permitted to study in residence at Hemingway's beloved Cuban home comes a radically new understanding of “Papa’s” life in Cuba
Ernest Hemingway first landed in Cuba in 1928. In some ways he never left. After a decade of visiting regularly, he settled...
Alejo Carpentier
The Pilgrim at Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Alejo Carpentier was one of the greatest Latin American novelists of the twentieth century, as well as a musicologist, journalist, cultural promoter, and diplomat. His fictional world issues from an encyclopedic knowledge of the history, art, music, and literature of Latin America and Europe. Carpentier’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture is a collective reflection on the value of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s work for the study of Spanish and Latin American literature and culture. The authors deploy Bourdieu’s concepts in the study of Modernismo, avant-garde Mexico, contemporary...
by Lauren Rule Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Why are twentieth-century novelists from former British colonies in the Americas preoccupied with British Romantic poetry? In Romantic Revisions, Lauren Rule Maxwell examines five novels-Kincaid's Lucy, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Harris's...